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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1182b65 | Everything not forbidden is compulsory. | T.H. White | ||
| 891b903 | I am writing a treatise just now" said the badger, coughing diffidently to show that he was absolutely set on explaining it, "which is to point out why Man has become the master of the animals. Perhaps you would like to hear it? It's for my doctor's degree you know," he added hastily, before Wart could protest. He got few chances of reading his treatise to anybody, so he could not bear to let the opportunity slip by." | academia-humor graduate-school | T.H. White | |
| adbfa5d | We have invented a moral sense which is rotting now that we can't give it employment, and when a moral sense begins to rot, it is worse than when you had none. I suppose that all endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, as my precious civilization was, contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. | pride spiritual-warfare | T.H. White | |
| ba0ab0b | Man had gone on, through age after age, avenging wrong with wrong, slaughter with slaughter. Nobody was the better for it, since both sides always suffered, yet everybody was inextricable. The present war might be attributed to Mordred, or to himself. But also it was due to a million Thrashers, to Lancelot, Guenever, Gawaine, everybody. Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it. It was as if everything would lead to sorrow, so l.. | T.H. White | ||
| 79ab00b | The best example I know, of this astonishingly stupid attitude towards sport, is that of Franz Ferdinand. His, however, was an achievement with the gun. He used to shoot at Konopist with no less than seven weapons and four loaders, and he once killed more than 4,000 birds, himself, in one day. [ of statistics and quite beside the point: a Yorkshireman once drank 52 1/2 pints of beer in one hour.] Now why did Franz Ferdinand do this? Even i.. | game gun gunpowder pheasant sarajevo shooting | T.H. White | |
| f39c8b2 | Thank God for the aged And for age itself, and illness and the grave. When we are old and ill, and particularly in the coffin, It is no trouble to behave. | T.H. White | ||
| 3dc5e72 | He could do what all men wanted to, that is, fly | T.H. White | ||
| db7e764 | Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. | T.H. White | ||
| 6a1f31c | He had conquered murder, to be faced with war. There were no Laws for that. | T.H. White | ||
| f3c1eea | The only way I can keep clear of force is by justice. Far from being willing to execute his enemies, a real king must be willing to execute his friends. | favoritism justice | T.H. White | |
| d4e270a | The best thing for being sad . . . is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and w.. | T.H. White | ||
| 55c82e3 | People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor. | pride reputation | T.H. White | |
| dc5b5e4 | So little time to pass?" said Merlyn, and a big tear ran down to the end of his nose." | T.H. White | ||
| c0c477a | Merlyn always said that sportsmanship was the curse of the world, and so it is. | T.H. White | ||
| ecedd2a | I never could stomach these nationalists," he exclaimed. "The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees." | T.H. White | ||
| 451561e | Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. | T.H. White | ||
| 5ef045b | when a moral sense begins to rot it is worse than when you had none. | T.H. White | ||
| eadc7dd | in going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him. | T.H. White | ||
| 60cb7e7 | In the course of a long experience of the human race, I have learned that you can never make them understand anything, unless you rub it in. | T.H. White | ||
| 21e1d72 | There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms. | chris-prentiss depression medical-research medical-treatment passages-malibu pax-prentiss sadness wellbeing | Chris Prentiss | |
| 480aadc | Rest is essential, but during our periods of rest, we must think to ourselves that in resting we are renewing our energy to fulfill our commitment. | energy nap rest sleep wu-wei | Wu Wei | |
| 5a08535 | The true source of happiness is within each of us. | philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness | Chris Prentiss | |
| 35f8d51 | I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again. | addiction-and-recovery addiction-cure addiction-free alcohol-abuse alcohol-addiction alcohol-addiction-treatment alcoholism-cure amazon author book bookstore chris-prentiss cure-addiction drug-abuse drug-addiction drug-addiction-treatment end-the-cycle freedom great-authors great-books kindle life new-book nook passages-malibu passages-ventura philosophy self-help sober sobriety wisdom | Chris Prentiss | |
| 2982823 | Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes. | addiction addiction-treatment addictions-treatment-centers alcohol-disease alcoholism change-the-world chris-prentiss confidence cure-addiction disease healing healing-abuse healing-trauma overcome-addiction passages-malibu passages-rehab passages-ventura pax-prentiss rehab-centers self-image | Chris Prentiss | |
| c54e764 | Depression can be due to a low endocrine function, nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar problems, food allergies, or systemic yeast infection. Depression can also result from medical illnesses such as stroke, heart attack, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and hormonal disorder. It can also be caused by a serious loss, a difficult relationship, a financial problem, or any stressful, unwelcome life change. | addiction-treatment addiction-treatment-center cause-of-depression chris-prentiss depression passages-malibu passages-ventura quotes reading sadness | Chris Prentiss | |
| 422b297 | When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: "This is for my benefit." | chris-prentiss-quotes passages-malibu philosophy philosophy-of-life quotes struggle wisdom | Chris Prentiss | |
| b9dc24b | People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch." | alcoholism alcoholism-addiction-recovery chris-prentiss health holistic-treatment passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss science | Chris Prentiss | |
| 81b645c | We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you use substances to alter your mood, to cover up your sadness, to ease your heartbreak, to lighten your stress load, to blur your painful memories, to escape your hurtful reality, or to make your unbearable days or nights bearable. | addiction-cure addiction-treatment-center alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss dependency drug-abuse heartache heartbreak holistic-health holistic-rehab holistic-therapy holistic-treatment holistic-treatment-center life live memories non-12-step pain passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss sadness substance-abuse survival | Chris Prentiss | |
| e3e0b69 | I'm not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth. | Ed Catmull | ||
| b583503 | If you don't try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. | Ed Catmull | ||
| d08f10f | Always try to hire people who are smarter than you. Always take a chance on better, even if it seems like a potential threat. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 2547a16 | gathered for a two-day off-site in a rustic cabin, 50 miles north of San Francisco, that often functions as our unofficial retreat center. The place, called the Poet's Loft, is all redwood and glass--perched on stilts over Tomales Bay, a perfect place to think. | Ed Catmull | ||
| dc13f01 | Here are the qualifications required: The people you choose must (a) make you think smarter and (b) put lots of solutions on the table in a short amount of time. | Ed Catmull | ||
| ba35e26 | When downsides coexist with upsides, as they often do, people are reluctant to explore what's bugging them, for fear of being labeled complainers. | Ed Catmull | ||
| ed625c9 | When filmmakers get stuck at Disney, it's referred to as spinning. "Spinning occurs because you're in a rut and can't see your project from different perspectives anymore," said Ed Catmull." | Charles Duhigg | ||
| 5495d14 | At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something. | creation invention teamwork | Ed Catmull | |
| 34d0c2a | If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better. The | Ed Catmull | ||
| 31e8d79 | I have attended church-service in the garrisons, and tried hard...to join in the prayers...but never could raise within me the solemn feelings and true affection that I feel when alone with God in the forest. There I seem to stand face to face with my Master; all around me is fresh and beautiful, as it came from His hand; and there is no nicety or doctrine to chill the feelings. No no; the woods are the true temple after all, for there the .. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 104df53 | We are all human, and all do wrong. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 29fe445 | When men speak, they should say that which does not go in at one side of the head and out at the other. Their words shouldn't be feathers, so light that a wind which does not ruffle the water can blow them away. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| dcc6789 | The arches of the woods, even at high noon, cast their sombre shadows on the spot, which the brilliant rays of the sun that struggled through the leaves contributed to mellow, and if such an expression can be used, to illuminate. It was probably from a similar scene that the mind of man first got its idea of the effects of gothic tracery and churchly hues, this temple of nature producing some such effect, so far as light and shadow were con.. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 6c517a1 | It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience! | life | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 14647cc | The French dine to gratify, we to appease appetite," observed John Sanderson. "We demolish dinner, they eat it." The general misconception back home was that French food was highly seasoned, but not at all, wrote James Fenimore Cooper. The genius in French cookery was "in blending flavors and in arranging compounds in such a manner as to produce ... the lightest and most agreeable food." The charm of a French dinner, like so much in French .. | David McCullough | ||
| 01a5a41 | The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last! | James Fenimore Cooper |